'Mathematics can reveal the beauty and order of the world.' How is your understanding of the world enhanced by mathematics?
Audience: Students and teachers/professors.
Purpose: To show how peoples perspectives of the world is enhancd by mathematics and how it is not.
Focus: Perspectives, innovation, culture
Layers:
H- Certain countries don't have school/kids aren't able to learn math.
E- Money, government
L- Math textbooks
P- Art
S- Biology, studying life
Purpose: To show how peoples perspectives of the world is enhancd by mathematics and how it is not.
Focus: Perspectives, innovation, culture
Layers:
H- Certain countries don't have school/kids aren't able to learn math.
E- Money, government
L- Math textbooks
P- Art
S- Biology, studying life
Viewpoint 1: How mathematics enhances people's understanding of the world.
Main Idea: Different types of math are used to help people everyday. Scientists have to use specific math equations to see if things are safe for the public. Concrete Example: Algebra can be used to test how quickly water has become contaminated and not able to be drank. Also, it can show how many people become sick from drinking the water. Main Idea: Mathematics can be used as a way for one to express their own thoughts or ideas. When designing something, it is often hard to explain an idea verbally to someone, but people are able to communicate with one another through equations or drawing out the design. Concrete Example: Architecture. Building a house, not everyone wants the same design and structure, so blueprints are created. Main Idea: Studying math can help students become more cultural. Learning about different number systems around the world; how they work and what each individual culture uses them for. Or, how they contributed to a certain subject. Concrete Example: When learning algebra, students could learn that Mayans contributed by giving the world elements such as there being 360 degrees in a circle. Main Idea: Math can help explain how things work in nature. How plants grow or why things are certain colors. Almost everything in nature is related to some math equation. Concrete Example: How math work in relation to how things grow in nature. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/describing-nature-math.html |
Viewpoint 2: How mathematics doesn't enhance the worlds understanding.
Main Idea: Not everyone can grasp the concept of math. Some people just don't comprehend how things work. Concrete Example: Certain people can understand and quickly grasp how things work through math, some people just aren't math people. Main Idea: Some things can't be explained, not just by math, but by anything. Why someone has a reason behind doing something or how they did it. Concrete Example: Why people disagree? Or why the world refuses to be at peace with each other. Main Idea: Knowing why and exactly how things work isn't always good thing. Concrete Example: http://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/#.Uw_7KGCPLIU Main Idea: In certain parts of the world, children mainly, can't get a proper education; meaning they don't have the chance to see how things work in the world. These people suffer, because most of them will never fully understand how the world can be enhanced by mathematics. Concrete Example: Children all over the world drop out of school or don't even get he chance to enter, depending on where they live. http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-education-around-world |
Introduction Points:
Opening Statement: Everyone has their own idea of how the world works. Mathematics can amplify how one views and understands the world around them.
Conclusion Points:
- Talk about mathematics and relate it to how the world works.
- Relate math to people and their understanding(s).
- State how the world is enhanced by mathematics.
- State how the world isn't enhanced/benefited by mathematics.
Opening Statement: Everyone has their own idea of how the world works. Mathematics can amplify how one views and understands the world around them.
Conclusion Points:
- Restate main points (briefly)
- Benefits/how mathematics enhances the world and how it doesn't.
- Talk about math and the world, again.
- State side.